Word: roman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Oratory", Professor Moore, Sever...
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...Citizens may still expect to find sacramental wines in the basement of most Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, Jewish synagogs. † Native wines and 75% Beer
...completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When...
Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that "the affair died a natural death. I thought everyone understood that...